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How many musicians we got here on Lemmy?

Music discussion is very lacking here for. Compared to reddit. And yeah I know, 'just post then'. But when I search for music communities here they're empty. And it makes sense because no-one is posting. So kind of a catch 22.

now i dont exactly know how all this lemmy stuff works but... to all you musos out there, can you join me and search for music under communities (I'm using summit app) and just at a minimum subscribe to all the ones that you would be interested in(if they were popping off)?

At least that way when one of us posts, the rest of us will actually see it (I suspect).

Anyway. Keep making the world more fun for everyone else.

P.s if your not a musician, but you like golf or something, subscribe to the golf communities even if they're empty.

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lemmy.world

Hey bro anytime you're done with my EH Small Stone, y'know. Feel free to bring it back.

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Sorry, traded it in for this guy. Will bring it over next time we have a beer and a bud.

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I get option paralysis when I don’t keep things dedicated to one pedal-one sound. I had a GT-1000 for about a year and never felt at home with it. Way happier with a small watt tube amp and dedicated pedals.

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lemmy.world

There is a guitar pedal community on Lemmy go search and sub to it. Lemmi see that pedalboard!

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Was subbed to it before we got kicked off lemm.ee. But yeah I should rejoin and give it a post.

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Damn, a boy can only dream. Imagine 2 posts with a comment each. I've subbed.

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piefed.social

I’m a semi-professional choral singer! I very frequently sing on a volunteer basis in a symphony chorus with a professional orchestra. And also sing with a smaller 12-person choir, really tight harmonies and blending. It’s a lot of fun.

Sometimes I get paid, but that’s rare.

I’ve gotten to sing some pretty awesome stuff (Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, video game concerts, Verdi’s Requiem, etc. etc. etc.) and gotten to meet some pretty cool people (including my wife)!

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lemmy.world

Yay, another choral singer! My degrees are in music but I don’t play my childhood instrument anymore so instead I sing in a chorus. People think singers aren’t good musicians as a rule and that’s total garbage. We sing some really difficult stuff as a chorus and you have to know what your note sounds like before you sing it; you can’t rely on just knowing the fingering for your instrument. It’s so much fun but also a great mental challenge. I’m thankful to have it in my life as my intellectual musical outlet.

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My degrees are in music

Sometimes I wish I had better training. I grew up on Suzuki violin, but I never really studied theory. I survive on talent rather than skill, and am very thankful for the skill of those around me!

People think singers aren’t good musicians as a rule and that’s total garbage.

It is wild to me the way some of the orchestral musicians treat the chorus. Most of them are friendly and complimentary, but some of them sure seem to think we’re beneath them. Could just be that they’re not very socially adept, I suppose.

We sing some really difficult stuff as a chorus and you have to know what your note sounds like before you sing it; you can’t rely on just knowing the fingering for your instrument.

And this can be so terrifying for some entrances!

It’s so much fun but also a great mental challenge. I’m thankful to have it in my life as my intellectual musical outlet.

I agree 100%.

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My sister was in a local youth chorus when I came home from college, and told me about the adult version. I found out when auditions were, tried out, got in, and have been loving it ever since!

I had sung in church choirs growing up, but now regret very much not singing during high school and college. A lot of my fellow choir people have great memories of singing in school choirs.

Turns out choirs are a great way to meet a significant other. Other than my wife and I, there are several married couples who met in this chorus (including a couple of married men)! As I tell guys looking to meet people: if you can carry a tune, have a vague understanding of music notation, and live near a medium or large city, you can probably find a volunteer choir. There are a lot of them, they always need people (especially tenors and basses), and are often full of very intelligent and interesting women, some of whom are probably single. 😂

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I've been singing for quite a while. Also gotten to do some cool things like singing Requiems and stuff. I mainly do volunteer but would love to get paid someday.

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lemmy.world

Ey nice! What kind of music communities would you like to see on Lemmy?

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Long time musician here!

Back in Reddit days I did prawl through music-making related communities, but found that discussion tended to stick to pretty trivial spheres. Figured that general music maker communities don't work. You want jazz drumming / pure data / microtonal techniques level specialised communities to keep it interesting. Otherwise it's just 'recommend a beginner-friendly daw' over and over.

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There are some good ones on reddit that I still frequent because I'm not seeing it here yet. Like /r/livesound is amazing for audio engineering. I know these nerds(like me) gotta be here. But I don't hear from them. So we gotta put a lil effort in and start somewhere.

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Musician here. I'll play almost anything with strings and drums. Youtube: @rx120d, @BlackRiverStudio astralpath.bandcamp.com

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I'm a punk artist! I recently released an album, check it out: jimmyhalliday.bandcamp.com

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lemmy.zip

I'm something of a musician myself, and it saddens me that I can't find any active music production or audio engineering communities on Lemmy.

BTW, would be interesting having a community dedicated to free licensed/copyleft/0cc/creative commons/non profit music.

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They're only 'not active' because no one has subbed yet. That's what this post is about. I don't know what the critical mass number is but even a community that reaches 10 is something. The more you sub to, the more instances it gets posted to. The more people see it, comment and sub.

Just( who ever is reading this) take 5 mins and start subbing to your interests. Instead of waiting for the community to assemble itself.

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lemmy.world

i guess depends on the cutoff (gatekeeping if you will) for musician. Being able to play wonderwall? or full time job and pay rent and all bills from performing/writing?

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lemmy.world

Virtually zero musicians are making enough money from performing/writing to pay rent and bills. Average income last I checked was around 40k, and that includes the money you make from your second job lol

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lemmy.world

my comment had both ends of the spectrum, you choose the cutoff, which would be somewhere between these two points

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lemmy.zip

I'd love to have a music theory comm. Like discussing some passages and analyzing things beyond the basics

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My partner is a professional musician and maybe this would finally get me to convince her to join Lemmy

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I would happily contribute to this, lmk if we decide on a specific community to all join in on, I think it would be cool if it was musician's interests in general. Like I'm an audio engineer as well as a guitarist so it would fun to have a space to have deep conversations about both, as well as other musical niches people have an interest in.

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I'm a musician and that doesnt play much any more. I actually found something from the good old days of reddit when cleaning my parents house... A CD.... That was sent to me by a stranger from reddit as a music swap. I think the idea is awesome and as much as I love the ability to listen to everything streaming, sitting down and listening to that CD invoked amazing memories I forgot about, and I even found a few bangers I didn't vibe with all those years ago. Long story short, I wanna do music swaps with people and not just playlists, actual physical music. Don't know if anyone will read this or how I would even physically send someone music now, but if you're interested post or DM me and we can figure something out!

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Define "musician". Basically I'm that guy who will play the first few bars of Für Elise on a piano, can't read music, and doesn't give any sign of knowing much more than that. This comment is a manifestation of that mindset, tbh.

Music theory interests me. I used to play a bit of keyboard and can strum a few chords on a ukulele, but I'm a billion light years away from being good enough to perform for people. Maybe I'd be OK in the background in place of a bass player, but you'd be better off with a prerecording or a computer standing in. Wrong sort of brain for practise, practise, practise.

But since you might like something interesting to look at, I have occasionally watched people like Heart of the Keys or There I Ruined It on YouTube, and dream that maybe, one day, I'd be able to do something like that.

HotK has done "1 minute, 10 minute, 1 hour" practise challenges with pieces she doesn't know, something that actual musicians might like to try and then discuss, and TIRI is just plain musical silliness.

Also Jacob Collier is a freak of nature and I wish I had his superpowers.

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lemmy.world

I play classical style guitar. I joined a community here, but I was the only post.

I agree that it's rough out there finding communities with common interests.

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Please join more. Even if they are empty. That way one day there will be 40 people who have joined and people naturally start talking. My Lemmy inbox has 40 unread messages now. We are here, we just don't have a spot yet. So search for music, guitar, your local area, and sub to the empty communities that you'd like to see filled and active.

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I started a synthesizer community on lemm.ee when I came to Lemmy after the API fiasco a couple years ago. It was a little active. When lemm.ee died, I just let it go.

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Thank you for getting the rest of us started. It is tricky Lemmy being so fragile. Hopefully the synth community will find its footing again somehow.

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sh.itjust.works

That's too bad. I would love more synth stuff here.

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sh.itjust.works

It no longer exists as the instance that was hosting the community has shut down. It now only exists in archive form on instances that federated with it prior to shutting down like the one you linked. No new posts or comments can be made however. (technically you can but it won't federate out for anyone to see).

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Hmm. I suppose the "solution" is to just start it again on another instance and link to that version for archived material. Thanks!

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lemmy.world

Check out the jazz community and for goodness sake, post

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lemmy.world

If I had to choose an order of importance, just my opinion

  1. Posting
  2. Discussing
  3. Voting

Edit: I posted quite a lot on jazz, gave up, went back. I'm only saying this to point out what is probably obvious, that I love the form

I think realistically, jazz is both an intimidating, and quite inaccessible form in ways. Someone just dipping in their toes can find that what they expected was a cozy warm hot spring, and ended up in an infinite pool stretching in all directions

It can be really scary and disorienting!

I feel jazz isn't really a genre so much as a viewpoint on life and sound, and that can make it so difficult to find common ground

So in a weird way, it might be better if there was less discussion and more sharing. That's probably a weird view. But what I would like is kind of selfish in my own way. The more people share and feel free to do so without judgment, the happier I am! Because I love new music, but like any normal human I do get trapped in certain vortexes. Apparently I entered a time warp to the 50s-70s and haven't found a single step back in 20 years lol

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My guitarist has been a jazz player for 20 years. It's fantastic. My band is working on funk originals. And I can say make that chord sadder and he can get it in more ways than just changing to minor. I can say hey, make my vocal land as the 7th to a chord and he can just find it. like damn. I have enough theory to get creative but it takes me ages to work it out. But it's all at the tip of his fingers. Amazing.

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lemmy.world

Guitar for 25 years with some bass and drums in there too, play in one band atm but always on the lookout for new stuff. I should play more.

It's a shame the music communities here aren't as vibrant as reddit but far less people over here. I live in hope that it'll get busier!

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Sub to communities you wanna see pop off and that's how they get more active.

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lemmy.world

I'm a bassist in a few bands. Wish there was more bass discussion here on Lemmy.

If you're into prog rock, check out one of my band's songs: frog rock

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lemmy.world

Have you followed/subbed to the bass communities on Lemmy? The more people do it, the more they'll talk there. Just gotta take the first baby steps.

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It's posting that really gets the ball rolling. Spread out over days/weeks helps a lot.

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if you can't tell from my username. I am also a bassist.

I've been getting into some transcription groups of FB. That might be a good community here? I get bored real quick of photos of pedal boards, ampeg/orange stacks, Rickenbackers and alcoholism memes

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lemmy.today

I play a bunch of instruments at least good enough to jam around a campfire. I also am in the middle of designing and building an analog drone based instrument with multiple oscillator types, a swimming pool of onboard effects, filters and other doodads.

I found a synth diy community the other day that I plan to start posting to soon.

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lemmy.world

Are you aware of "Look Mum No Computer" on YouTube? If not, you may find it useful.

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I am. His channel, Paul in the Lab, and Music From Outer Space are where I tell people to start if they show an interest.

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Your description of a "swimming pool of onboard effects" has reminded me of a project I did in university (for an engineering and product design degree). We were each given a laser pointer and a light sensor and told to make a musical instrument with it. After a chat with a music professor we decided to go for a somewhat loose interpretation of "instrument" and shone the laser through a bowl of water. The bowl itself was clear too, so the laser shone right through and we could pick up its position on the other side. We then mapped the x and y axes to pitch and volume so that splashing the water turned into a kind of random whalesong generator

Useful for actually making music? No, not really. It was a lot of fun though

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lemmy.world

I've been in a bunch of bands. Recorded a couple shitty punk albums. More recently I have done solo music and recorded my own EP. Most recently, I've been considering busking for extra money.

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kbin.earth

So long as you don't mean professional musician, I guess I count. I'm a decent guitarist and a reasonably competent bassist (the skills are transferrable, but they are not the same if you want to do anything interesting on bass) who does a bit of blues, rock, and metal. I've done a little bit of music production, essentially just enough to put together recordings with programmed drums at home and have them not be completely awful. I'm also working, very slowly, on learning piano and would like to learn violin, but life has gotten in the way lately and made that difficult

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lemmy.world

Pro or no. I'm looking for people with the spark for music. It sounds like you are getting your feet wet as a generalist. Singing and lryicism is my main, but I dabble in the rest to pull together recordings of what's in my head. Nice to meet you. What communities would you like to see more active on Lemmy. And have you subbed to similar ones already?

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kbin.earth

Nice to meet you too! Writing lyrics is one of the biggest blocks between me and putting together complete songs of my own, which is a little galling because I have been paid many times for non-lyric creative writing. I just need to practice more until I can do it (or find someone who has lyrics but doesn't know what to put under them, I suppose)

I dabble in the rest to pull together recordings of what's in my head

This is exactly how it happened for me, yeah! I had ideas and I wanted to actually hear them, and the rest sprang from there

I'm not a particularly heavy fediverse user, but I am subscribed to ![email protected]. No matter how much I enjoy trying out different aspects of musicianship and putting them together, there is no doubt that my first love is guitars

I wonder if a more general community for music creation would be a better approach? Seeing as we're a relatively small number of people here it's maybe more useful to specialise the community less just for the sake of gathering more of us together? I don't know a damn thing about running or promoting communities though

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lemmy.world

That's the thing though. Sub to specific and sub to general, it only takes a few seconds and it's free. So no real downside

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Fair point! I have no experience growing online communities

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lemmy.world

Do you have any recorded music uploaded on bandcamp or similar? If not, you should!

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I recorded and released a couple of EPs with a band once, but they were only released physically. I have also recorded a couple of metal versions of tracks from the Outer Wilds soundtrack. They're a bit rough because they were very much the process of me actively learning how to do these things, but I'm still pretty pleased with them

I am trying to record some proper music of my own, but sadly my health nosedived and I've struggled to be productive on much at all. Still, the effort continues! However long it takes me, it will be done one day

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lemmy.world

*waves hello to fellow music nerds*

Anyway, here's 'Smoke on the Water' on a harpsichord

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lemmy.zip

I love acoustic and classical guitar. Never could make electric work for me. Maybe had I learned jazz things would be different. Just too hippie

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I think finding an electric guitar tone you like is half the battle.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

If you're just playing clean guitar through a clean amp, it's probably going to be boring for the most part.

Crank the gain up on the amp and/or get a few choice pedals, and you can make it sound like anything you want.

I like fucking around with delays and reverbs sometimes, and just make crazy ambient soundscapes.

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lemmy.zip

Lol to telling someone who's playing acoustic that a clean tone is boring

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I said "if."

And there's a big difference between electric guitar with clean tone, and an unamplified acoustic.

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For someone that's keen on classical I would suggest going a very different direction for electric. Low gain, humbucker pickups, neck pickup, flatwound strings, plenty of mids in the mix, and only a gentle amount of reverb for that super-rich soft jazzy tone. A guitar with a bigsby tailpiece is great for applying subtle vibrato to whole chords too, which is not easily achieved on a classical

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Not professional, and I haven't played in years, but I did play trumpet in band for about a decade!

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lemmy.world

Oh sick. Are you local to Melbourne by chance? I need some trumpet sometimes

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I'm about as far away from Melbourne as possible, on Earth, in fact! Best of luck finding some trumpets, though.

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lemmy.world

Have you subbed/followed any piano Lemmy communities? Piano4all on udemy is really good for learning piano. That's how I started out. Cost me 11 euro total, practiced 15 mins a day. And look at me now.... I can.... Kinda play lol

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I still drum, so I'm at least someone who hangs out with musicians. I haven't played with others in like a decade though.

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lemmy.ca

I played the Kazoo for several years but I could never tune it properly.

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Penny whistle gang unite. Go find a Lemmy community and follow it. Heck you could find the guitar community and take it over with their paltry numbers.

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lemmy.zip

I play guitar, piano and bass? recently got one and started building basic competency skills.

I've been playing for like 15 years, terrible still but that's what makes it fun for me.

I'm interested in recording things but just get too overwhelmed with thinking about using midi drums or synths, the fun part for me is playing over things not necessarily mixing and mastering them. It is something I'm overall interested in.

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lemmy.world

Have a look at 'addictive drums' it has a bunch of preset midi grooves that you can play along to and mix and match. It's pretty plug and play and may be a comfy way into dipping your toes into midi

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lemmy.zip

that's fine but it also kind of sounds terrible or too "plastic", I'm thinking of buy an electric drum set and learning drums and through learning I'll be able to pick through the samples I like using and in turn that ends up kind of pre-mixing some of my drum recordings (if it gets to that)

I know what you mean though, I'm on Linux so the options for those I'm not sure is the same as windows. addictive drums might just not work

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I can offer a little advice on the programmed drums: mess with the velocities of each hit. It'll never quite sound like a real drummer, of course, but it can sound way less mechanical than it does by default. The best thing is that you do not neeed to be orecise about it whatsoever, because being a little random about it is actually more like a real drummer would be. Use them to emphasise and de-emphasise specific notes, or ramp fills up or down. It makes a huge difference

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lemmy.world

I'm slowly moving to linux. Haven't checked if addictive drums works there yet. I don't know if you just assumed they sound plastic but it actually slaps I think. No one has ever told me my drums sound like shit.

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lemmy.zip

I've used lots of drum VSTs in my experience they take a lot of tweaking to sound right but it might be the tism making me feel that way, also I didn't mean to say they sounded like shit, just not organic.

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Cant speak to that specific software, but Linux has tons of FOSS music software. There are several right on Flat Hub even.

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lemmy.world

I sing and play folk music on the guitar and early music on lute and recorder (my favorite size is the tenor).

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kbin.earth

What sort of folk music do you play? I love Scottish and Irish folk and primarily play guitar, but I've never really figured out how to properly incorporate it into that kind of music

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lemmy.world

Mostly American stuff, the way I like to play solo is with fingerpicking chord melodies. I'll usually try to find a way to play the tune with my open chords and then mix in some other voicings to spice it up.

When playing early dance music I prefer to strum diads though; I'm usually in the middle or low register in a dance pit, filling out the sound for the melody instruments like vielle or citole.

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Dyads makes sense actually, the closest I've ever gotten to finding a sound I like for it is when I'm playing my guitar that I keep in open C tuning. Vielles and citoles would be a rare sight over my way, but violins take on the exact same role. Thanks for the advice!

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lemmy.world

Have you found any Lemmy communities for folk music yet?

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Ah, memories. Knowing the music and knocking the score off the stand to fuck with my stand partner buddy... until the conductor had to separate us. Good times.

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piefed.zip

I make music and have released them on streaming platforms. I’m subscribed to most of the music, music production, and music genre communities in the fediverse.

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I have submitted to knives and scuba communities here even though they're small. Fortunately, I still get responses. So I urge you guys to post in your empty communities or create your own

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aussie.zone

I've played guitar on and off since I was about 7, but I'm still amateurish at best. I got some lessons in my late teens from a co-worker that got me good enough to bash out chords in the church band. Played bass briefly in a band after quitting the church in the early nineties, but didn't really touch an instrument again until the divorce in '09. I've been playing ukulele since then after getting some cheap ones for my kids and learning it myself to teach them and fell in love with it. I used to go busking with it 5-6 days a week singing and playing covers when I was unemployed and broke, but that ended about ten years ago when I had to get a real job.

I've never considered myself a musician, though.

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lemmy.world

Guy plays guitar and uke. Teaches kids music, gigged every day. Doesn't consider himself a musician. I think you're a more active musician than most professionals lol.

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I appreciate the thought, but I've been around actual musicians, and I'm not that.

I have only the most rudimentary knowledge of music theory, have only ever written one song, which was terrible, and didn't actually end up teaching my kids ukulele.

These days I just fiddle about with my ukes on my couch. If I ever get over my inertia, I've been thinking of putting up some youtube clips of my covers, but don't hold your breath.

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feddit.uk

Man, I wish.

I can't sing. I can't play any instrument. I have no sense of timing (I can't always even clap along in time). If I ever do end up being part of a band it's going to be as their manager since I'm now too old to be a roadie. But I wish I could, I dunno, play guitar enough to jam or be a part of an totally average local band.

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If you learn how to market indie bands. They'll let you play anything you want.

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lemmy.world

If you can't play music but want to play WITH music, I'd recommend getting a groovebox like the Novation Circuit (original or Circuit Tracks). It gives you 2 synthesizers and 4 drum parts in one small, battery-powered box, with a sensible note/pattern sequencer. It's limited, but there are a lot of resources online for using it, and it's cheap if you buy used. Great fun to sit on the couch and make tunes.

There are also groovebox apps for iOS (like Grooverider GR-16) that do the same and sound great for less money.

What I'm saying is: music creation is more accessible than ever these days, so never tell yourself you can't do it.

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  1. Used to play viola back in school. Lost it around fall 2019, early winter 2020 during a forced move.
  2. I currently have an acoustic guitar I got recently. Really need to actually play it now that I have time instead of letting it sit in the case. Learn it instead of procrastinating.
  3. I should follow music communities to find more music, but I don't because IDK.
  4. I don't post because I feel like whenever I do post on a site like this that I need to respond to everyone who replies, which adds mental gymnastics I don't wanna play with .
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Uh, I know how to use BeepBox (nice for making music for my games) and I just started learning to use Strudel, does that count? I have a piano (keyboard) but I don't really release music I just make it sometimes when I'm bored. I guess that counts as amateur musician

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lemmy.world

Yeah that counts. Have you found a boopbox community on reddit?

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No, I didn't make any music when I used Reddit, and I didn't even know about Beepbox, so I wasn't exactly searching for one. Haven't found a community about it on Lemmy yet

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lemmy.world

Have you followed a cello community on Lenny? Maybe it'll keep the spark alive for you enough to get back to the strings. I wanted to play cello as a kid because of that little half plastic ball that goes on the end of the metal stick so you don't scratch the ground. Saw one that looked like a galaxy and was hooked, but they only had violins left at my school. so, you are essentially living my dream.

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piefed.social

Lol thanks. You should try to find a teacher near you. It is never to late to learn!

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I've actually been thinking of getting vocal lessons again. But my vocals aren't what's holding my music making back, I gotta get to making the content and marketing etc. So trying to not spread myself too thin. But man, when Im a billionaire, you know for damn sure imma have a cello with a sparkly ball at the end.

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lemmy.zip

I'm already subbed to a few comms but I'd take recommendations on what I should be following

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What kinda stuff you into? Maybe search for your specific instrument and sub even if it's empty. The more people that do this the more we can find each other.

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fedia.io

Why talk about it when you could bee practicing or playing. most discussions feel like people who don't like it enough to practice and so theyeare not good and in turn are 'blind leading blind'

i play mandolin, at an okay. I dabble in many other things.

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Because I'm in bed next to my sleeping wife and I wanna support the community and maybe reply to help someone on their musical journey.

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lemmy.world

I used to play saxophone, clarinet and flute for years, but then I moved to Australia and I didn't bring any of them with me. They're expensive here, too, so I can't bring myself to buy another..

Though now I have an Irish low whistle, I haven't had a chance to really get in to it because of changing jobs, moving houses, etc etc. The lack of buttons is challenging.

I admit, though, I have a longing to just get back in to a community band again just to be surrounded by music again.

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lemmy.world

You in Melbourne? What kind of music do you like listening to?

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Sure am. I listen to a lot of different genres and it really depends on my mood and the sound of the song. I can't pinpoint any specific type of music, even my partner is confused. Now I've just been listening to 80s and 90s Elton John, Shania Twain, etc for nostalgia.. But I'll listen to pop, rock, metal, heavy metal, Irish trad, folk, calm instrumental music, occasional j-pop, jazz,..

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sopuli.xyz

I'm a musician with dreams of opening a donations based label and covering a different genre every album. Currently releasing a mixtape where each song is a different genre.

Most recent release was on July 4th to protest all the horseshit going on in America: https://youtu.be/RsS5mFz-WgA

Also have a video explaining my dream a bit more here: https://youtu.be/1SROCLSPY9U

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lemmy.world

Your video is an interesting concept. I do wonder though about switching genres each album. I get why, but as a consumer you'd have to let them know what to expect. That it's all about exploration. Because let's say your 2nd album pops off and goes viral for its hiphop. If you make your next album classical choir acapellas, you are essentially alienating your audience. Unless they know you pulling some weird shit from the beginning like 'I love robots' on netflix. You know what I mean? Feel like you'd lose momentum across time unless your audience expressly follows you because they want to see you explore in every direction.

But who am I to say anything, Im just a dude replying on the internet

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I already have it all planned out. I know which album will lead into which and have ways I will play off it. I do switch as drastically as rock to Hip Hop but none of them are niche genres like choir lol.

I'm essentially creating love letters to all these different genres that have influenced me, and they're all genres with bigger fanbases. I'm trying to tie them together through lyrical content.

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lemmy.ml

I play the guitar, but mostly I just learn tricky songs and I try to play them. I would happily read about music though.

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I've been working on playing the chords and melody at the same time on my guitar for my own songs. So haaaard. But slowly im getting there

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lemmy.world

Guitar here.

Maybe we can decide on one sub we can all inhabit? There's not enough folks on Lemmy to keep niche communities alive. If we just pick a general (any instrument) community it might be functional. Instrument specific communities could branch off when they have enough people

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Yeah that's why I recommend subbing to a bunch and over time the winner will reveal itself

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Bassist and vocalist here! Production and mixing too. Really love synths too.

Massive rush fan, if its not obvious

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